GOLD PROSPECTING
SOME ENCOURAGING RESULTS [Special to the 'Stab.'] WELLINGTON, January 19. Mainly due to increased prospecting, New Zealand’s gold production in the five months ended l December, increased by £60,000, compared with the corresponding period of 1930, and the number of individual prospectors or parties who sold gold last December was 420, compared with. 118 the previous December. Miners’ rights issued last year rose from 1,649 to 2,969. Encouraging results have been secured by the forty-six prospectors ill the Murchison district, which included the old Howard field. Their last month’s gold sales averaged £7 6s Id each. None received assistance from the Mines Department, and few, if any, from the Unemployment. Board, though official encouragement is being given to suitable men who are prepared to leave the cities for the prospecting occupation. Twelve month* ago only four, prospectors were .working the Murchison district. „
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Evening Star, Issue 21004, 19 January 1932, Page 6
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144GOLD PROSPECTING Evening Star, Issue 21004, 19 January 1932, Page 6
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